Windows Hates Me (help?)

So hello. I'm kind of stuck with a problem where I can only run Windows for like 10 minutes. After that, Windows Explorer freezes up, then everything else. If that fixes itself, I get a BSOD soon after. and not the classic BSOD. A "Windows has stopped running to prevent blah blah blah" BSOD, basically telling me it's dumping some shit to make everything 'okay'. It's annoying. I've ended up running Windows in Safe Mode with Networking (Windows with some drivers disabled and nother ing opening in the background) It's an okay solution, but it comes with the fact I can't use YouTube, or audio, or some external drives (my SD doesn't work, but my USB Stick does, among other things) Is there any way I can fix my computer? Thanks. I'm running a (terrible) Dell inspiron 1525, came with Vista but running my harddrive from my old Toshiba Satellite L765 that died.

Considering it's not happening in safe mode, my guess is malware. On the start menu, type "msconfig" into the search bar and hit enter. Click the Startup tab, uncheck anything you don't recognize then click Apply and restart your computer. If it still does it, try disabling everything else on the Startup tab and restarting again.

If that doesn't work, download and install the non-premium version of Malwarebytes, found here. Once it's installed, run it and find the definitions update option on the main window, then do a normal full scan. You'll probably want to do all of this from safe mode, just make sure you select the one with networking.

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I'm running a (terrible) Dell inspiron 1525, came with Vista but running my harddrive from my old Toshiba Satellite L765 that died

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This is most likely your problem. When you install Windows, it automatically installs and configures specific drivers tailored toward your systems hardware. If you try using that same installation on a different machine, unless they have identical hardware you'll run into all sorts of issues, including the one you're having now.

What you'll need to do is reinstall Windows. Assuming you have a product key available for Windows 7, you can download a copy from Microsoft here.

To add to what Maslow said , you will need this to get your windows keys if you do not have them available,

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https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

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it can also find some other software keys on your system in case you need those as well, it gets everything it can at once.